Editing Water supply and sanitation in South Africa (section)

===Affordability===
There is little information available on their affordability, i.e. the share of water bills in household income. If a household consumes less than the free basic water limit, the share is obviously zero. For a household in Cape Town that has no sewer connection and consumes 10 cubic meters of water, the monthly water bill is almost R20 or US$2.40. With the poverty line at R500 per capita and month,<ref>{{cite web|work=Mail & Guardian|title=Poverty and inequality in South Africa|url=https://mg.co.za/article/2011-09-16-poverty-and-inequality-in-south-africa|access-date=8 September 2012|date=16 September 2011}}</ref> the monthly income of a four-person household at the poverty line would be R2000, and the water bill would be 1 percent of income. However, according to another source the poverty level in South Africa was only R1000 per household,<ref name="WRC Rural"/> in which case the share of the water bill would be 2 percent of income, and higher for those living below the poverty line.